Burnt Swamp Baptist Church

The Burnt Swamp Baptist Church was organized in 1877 in the Jamestown Community east of Pembroke. The old church building was relocated to the grounds of the Burnt Swamp Baptist Association in the 1980s. This photograph is featured in my book Images of America Robeson County.

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Growing up in North Carolina I was surrounded by history and great Southern cooking spending countless hours with his great-grandparents. The busy kitchen and large family dinners gave a perfect settling for hearing about the people of the past. As I learned the history of the area and her citizens I developed a craving to bring the people of the past alive and share their stories...